Halcyon Blue

Vocal

Irene Ros has been singing since she was able to make a sound. Irene’s mother played an early musical role in her life as a music teacher and pianist who failed at preventing Irene from sleeping late. As a closet song writer, poet, and vocalist for more than 15 years, Irene has generated stacks of unfinished lyrics that called out for a life beyond just cluttering her living space. Her persistence and talent guaranteed that eventually they would find a voice, and their home is now with HalcyonBlue and bandmate Chip Carter. Like her singing voice, Irene’s lyrics are at once sophisticated and sensitive but very accessible. Irene counts Billie Holiday, Diana Krall, Aretha Franklin and more recently Nickel Creek and Chip as key musical influences. She also plays guitar (better than she admits around Chip) and has (sadly, like Chip) started a small collection of guitars (currently 3). Irene was born in the Ukraine where she spent the first six years of her life, followed by ten more in Israel. She moved to the United States at the age of sixteen and attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where she studied Computer Science. She works as a software engineer at IBM to pay the bills when she’s not singing or writing for HalcyonBlue. She is currently co-composing and recording music with Chip for HalcyonBlue’s debut recording, due out in late 2007.